red shift

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The red shift indicates a change in the electronic structure or optical properties of the material.

From Science Daily • May 3, 2024

What does this imply, assuming that the only source of red shift is relative motion?

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

All galaxies farther away than about 50×106 ly exhibit a red shift in their emitted light that is proportional to distance, with those farther and farther away having progressively greater red shifts.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Its value is determined by taking the slope of a graph of velocity versus distance, obtained from red shift measurements, such as shown in Figure 34.5.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The apparent recession of the galaxies, with the red shift interpreted through the Doppler effect, is not the only evidence for the Big Bang.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan